Editors' Review

CDBurnerXP is a convenient tool for creating CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray disks from all kinds of files on your computer as quickly and easily as possible. While this program isn't packed with features, it includes exactly what you need to create disks for all kinds of uses.

Pros

Good instructions: This app comes with a good online Help feature that guides you through accessing all of the program's features. This makes it possible for users of all experience levels to get the most possible benefit from the app as long as they're willing to take the time to review the reference material.

Variety of functions: You can make multiple types of disks using this program, including CDs, DVDs, H-DVDs, and Blu-rays. In addition, you can create ISO files and multilingual interfaces, and you can rip content from CDs as well.

Cons

Unintuitive interface: This app's interface is not terribly intuitive, and it can be especially overwhelming to inexperienced users at first. Fortunately, the Help file mitigates some of this, and once you learn your way around this program, you'll be able to find all features you're looking for quickly enough.

Bottom Line

CDBurnerXP is a smooth-functioning and powerful program for anyone who needs to burn media from a Windows computer to a disk. It isn't packed with features, but it does have the main tools you're looking for when you're working on this type of project, and it's completely free to download and use.

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Publisher's Description

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From Stefan Haglund:
CDBurnerXP is an application to burn optical disks including CD, DVD, H-DVD, Blu-Ray Disks. It can create ISO and Multilanguage interface.

It is able to burn audio-CDs with or without gaps between tracks. Data verification can be done after burning process. The software also can be used as bin/nrg to ISO converter and can used for simple cover printing.

Read from and wrote to optical drives much more slowly than the hardware was capable of doing.

Did not make an exact copy of an audio CD; changed the date/time stamp.

Summary

I installed this software on a 10-year old Dell mini-tower with a Pentium 4 processor. The computer had been updated from Windows XP to Windows 7 with a recent, clean reinstall. The RAM was maxed-out at 4 GB and the latest BIOS installed.

Using either a DVD drive or a 48x CD drive, and 52x Verbatim CD-R's, a straight copy of a commercial audio CD took about ten minutes. That was approximately 10x performance.

I initially assumed this was a system problem. I spent hours on the net searching for a solution, verifying DMA settings, checking for updated drivers, and even tried disabling the anti-virus and firewall software. Nothing helped.

I then installed Ashampoo Burning Studio FREE, and the problem disappeared. The same disk copy operation took about four minutes.

Another problem with this software is that the date/time stamp on the copied audio tracks was the current date and time. As a result, Windows Media Player did not recognize the album. The Ashampoo software made an exact copy of the original CD.

Very slow on New hardware too (Win7 Pro x86), and often fails to complete audio copy- Program hangs open can't be closed by Task Manager, forcing a manual shutdown!The auto-cache audio setting also fills the C: drive (released 4gig+ of old data when I disabled this in Settings...).I'll be trying Ashampoo?

I have never seen this either in the EULA or after installation. I have been using the program since it was released many years ago and every update has gone without a hitch with no hint or presence of that or anything else nasty.

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